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Lucía
Lucía is on page 90 of 241 of The Scarlet Letter
But it is an error to suppose that our grave forefathers—though accustomed to speak and think of human existence as a state merely of trial and warfare, and though unfeignedly prepared to sacrifice goods and life at the behest of duty—made it a matter of conscience to reject such means of confort, or even luxury, as lay fairly within their grasp.
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The Scarlet Letter

Lucía
Lucía is on page 41 of 361 of La fugitiva
En realidad, lo que nos llena de una alegría que atribuimos a otras causas es nuestra previsión, nuestra esperanza de acontecimientos dichosos, y esa alegría cesa para dar de nuevo lugar al dolor en cuanto ya no estamos tan seguros de que se realizará lo que deseamos. Lo que sostiene el edificio de nuestro mundo sensitivo es siempre una invisible creencia, y cuando ésta falla, el edificio se tambalea.
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La fugitiva

Lucía
Lucía is on page 11 of 361 of La fugitiva
Pero ¡qué pálidas, qué indiferentes, qué muertas resultan las ciudades más deseadas (…) cuando estamos unidos a otro corazón por una ligadura tan dolorosa que nos impide separarnos!
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La fugitiva

Lucía
Lucía is on page 9 of 361 of La fugitiva
como el futuro es lo que no existe aún más que en nuestro pensamiento, nos parece todavía modificable mediante la intervención in extremis de nuestra voluntad.
Aug 29, 2020 02:27PM Add a comment
La fugitiva

Lucía
Lucía is on page 149 of 345 of Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection
A robot is a computerized machine that is capable of performing tasks of kind that are too complex for any living mind other than that of a man, and of a kind that no non-computerized machine is capable of performing.
In other words to put it as briefly as possible :
robot = machine + computer
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Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

Lucía
Lucía is on page 124 of 189 of The Word for World Is Forest
He preferred to be enlightened, rather than to enlighten; to seek rather facts rather than the Truth. But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. “What are they doing?” abruptly becomes “What are we doing?” and then, “What must I do?”
Aug 28, 2020 02:19PM Add a comment
The Word for World Is Forest

Lucía
Lucía is on page 112 of 189 of The Word for World Is Forest
Quality is an important matter, but so is quantity: relative size. The normal adult reaction to a very much smaller person may be arrogant, or protective, or patronizing, or affectionate, or bullying, but whatever it is it’s liable to be better fitted to a child than to an adult.
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The Word for World Is Forest

Lucía
Lucía is on page 102 of 189 of The Word for World Is Forest
Athshe, which meant the Forest, and the World. So earth, terra, tells meant both the soil and the planet, two meanings and one. But to the Athens soil, ground, earth was not that to which the dead return and by which the living live: the substance of their world was not earth, but forest. Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshesian man was branch and root.
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The Word for World Is Forest

Lucía
Lucía is on page 74 of 189 of The Word for World Is Forest
“You have not thought things through” he said. By his standards, it was a brutal insult.
Aug 28, 2020 10:49AM Add a comment
The Word for World Is Forest

Lucía
Lucía is on page 70 of 189 of The Word for World Is Forest
The most winning characteristic of the rather harsh Cetian was curiosity., Inopportune and inexhaustible curiosity; Cetians died eagerly, curious as to what came next.
Aug 28, 2020 08:46AM Add a comment
The Word for World Is Forest

Lucía
Lucía is on page 141 of 401 of The Hotel New Hampshire
What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose it on others should be discreet.
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The Hotel New Hampshire

Lucía
Lucía is on page 141 of 480 of La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)
En la vida de todos hay un momento en que se necesita un cambio radical. Llegado ese momento, hay que agarrarse a él sin dudarlo, como si fuera la cola de un animal. Agarrarla fuerte, no soltarse nunca. Pero en este mundo hay personas capaces de hacerlo y otras que no.
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La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)

Lucía
Lucía is on page 9 of 361 of La fugitiva
de pronto, veía una nueva faz del Hábito. Hasta ahora lo había considerado como un poder destructor q suprime la originalidad y hasta la consciencia de las percepciones; ahora lo veía como una divinidad temible, tan incorporada a nosotros mismos, tan incrustado en nuestro corazón, que si se despega, o si se aparta de nosotros, nos inflige sufrimientos más temibles q ninguna y se torna tan cruel como la muerte.
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La fugitiva

Lucía
Lucía is on page 102 of 572 of Fortunata y Jacinta I
Es que cuando un conjunto de circunstancias favorables pone en las manos del hombre gran cantidad de bienes, privándole de uno solo, la fatalidad de nuestra naturaleza o el principio de descontento que existe en nuestro barro constitutivo le impulsan a desear precisamente lo poquito que no se le ha otorgado.
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Fortunata y Jacinta I

Lucía
Lucía is on page 140 of 480 of La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)
De vez en cuando, las personas sufren una gran transformación (...). Hay gente que decide romper de golpe con algo y eso genera una especie de fuerza que nace de los escombros de lo que deja atrás.
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La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)

Lucía
Lucía is on page 8 of 361 of La fugitiva
Me había equivocado creyendo ver claro en mi corazón. Pero este conocimiento, que las más finas percepciones de la inteligencia no habían sabido darme, me lo acababa de traer, duro, deslumbrante, extraño, como una sal cristalizada, la brusca reacción del dolor.
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La fugitiva

Lucía
Lucía is on page 8 of 361 of La fugitiva
creía que lo había analizado todo exactamente, sin olvidar nada; creía conocer bien el fondo de mi corazón. Pero nuestra inteligencia, por lúcida que sea, no puede percibir los elementos que la componen y permanecen ignorados, en un estado volátil, hasta que un fenómeno capaz de aislarlos les imprime un principio de solidificación.
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La fugitiva

Lucía
Lucía is on page 101 of 572 of Fortunata y Jacinta I
no volvió a salir de sus labios ni un solo vocablo soez, ni una sola espontaneidad de aquellas que existían dentro de él, como existen los trapos de colorines en algún rincón de la casa del que ha sido cómico (...). Todo era convencionalismo y frase ingeniosa en aquel hombre que se había emperejilado intelectualmente, cortándose una levita para las ideas y planchándole los cuellos al lenguaje.
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Fortunata y Jacinta I

Lucía
Lucía is on page 145 of 345 of Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection
In 1752, the French satirist Voltaire wrote Micromegas, in which visitors from Saturn and Sirius observe the Earth, but this cannot be taken literally. The visitors are merely Voltaire’s device for having Earth viewed with apparent objectivity from without in order to have its follies and contradictions made plain.
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Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

Lucía
Lucía is on page 143 of 345 of Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection
Such things as printing, the magnetic compass, and (most of all) gunpowder, leaked through westward from China, and these things—for some reason not exploited by the technologically more advanced Chinese—were put to amazing use by Europeans.
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Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

Lucía
Lucía is on page 113 of 480 of La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)
Cuanto más pura es la curiosidad, mayor fuerza tiene. Además es necesaria.
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La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)

Lucía
Lucía is on page 112 of 401 of The Hotel New Hampshire
It was an incident that was hushed in the best private school tradition; it was remarkable, really, how a school as unsophisticated as the Dairy school could at times imitate exactly the decorum of silence in dealing with distasteful matters that the more sophisticated schools had learned like a science.
Aug 09, 2020 01:28AM Add a comment
The Hotel New Hampshire

Lucía
Lucía is on page 187 of 220 of A Scanner Darkly
It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to apply injustice.
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A Scanner Darkly

Lucía
Lucía is on page 79 of 480 of La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)
la vida es un misterio insondable. Está llena de casualidades, de cambios de rumbo tan repentinos e increíbles como retorcidos e impensables; y cuando suceden, no apreciamos, sin embargo, ningún misterio en ellos. (...) El hecho de que no guarden una relación lógica entre ellos es algo de lo que a menudo solo nos damos cuenta con el paso del tiempo.
Jul 10, 2020 11:56PM Add a comment
La muerte del comendador, Libro 1 (Kishidancho Goroshi, #1)

Lucía
Lucía is on page 22 of 32 of Winter's King
She learned a great many facts, numbers, myths, epics, proportions, relationships, and so forth, and saw, beyond the borders of what she had learned, the unknown again, a splendid immensity. In this augmentation of her mind and being there was great satisfaction: yet she was unsatisfied.
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Winter's King

Lucía
Lucía is on page 211 of 290 of The Left Hand of Darkness
I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty arises:and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?
Jul 09, 2020 04:29AM Add a comment
The Left Hand of Darkness

Lucía
Lucía is on page 203 of 290 of The Left Hand of Darkness
His loyalty extended without disproportion to things, the patient, obstinate, reliable things that we use and get used to, the things we live by.
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The Left Hand of Darkness

Lucía
Lucía is on page 189 of 290 of The Left Hand of Darkness
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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The Left Hand of Darkness

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